One GB of Romanian residential traffic costs $0.50/GB on HProxy Residential Lite, with Romania as the country. Residential Premium adds a choice of 100 cities and 21 networks at $1.45 for one GB. The IP belongs to a Romanian home or mobile line, so Romanian sites show you what a visitor in Romania sees.
Three facts shape the purchase. DIGI alone serves an estimated 65.4% of Romanian internet users, and on Orange's main network about 9 users share each public address. Only 88 of the 1,601 Romanian free proxies our collector saw since May 13, 2026, ever worked. And one seller's Romanian pool claim equals a third of the country's IPv4 addresses.
Which networks does a Romanian IP come from?
RIPE NCC, the internet registry for Europe, the Middle East and Central Asia, lists every block of addresses it gives out, with the holder's country. Its file, with records to November 9, 2026, lists 7,860,608 IPv4 addresses for Romania, in 2,857 blocks held by 606 holders:
DIGI holds 1,858,560 addresses, Orange Romania 1,558,528 and Vodafone Romania 1,093,888 under two holder records. ICI Bucharest, the national institute for research and development in informatics, holds 787,968. M247 Europe holds 298,752, and our own free proxy engine files M247's network as a datacenter one.
Where do Romanian users really sit?
APNIC Labs, which estimates users per network from its own ad measurements, puts DIGI first by far, with 65.4% of Romanian users averaged over the 60 days to November 2, 2026:
APNIC lists 298 Romanian networks. Its fourth entry, INTERKVM HOST with 3.8%, is a server host: our own engine files its network as a datacenter one.
How many users share one Romanian address?
Divide each network's estimated users by the IPv4 addresses it announces to the rest of the internet:
Orange's main network announced 226,560 addresses in RouteViews on November 5, 2026, for an estimated 2,058,812 users, about 9 per address. DIGI comes to 5 and Vodafone's main network to 1.6. Many users behind one public address is the mark of carrier-grade NAT, which our CGNAT explainer takes apart. A residential exit on a shared address leaves through the same public IP as other households, and whatever a site has recorded about that IP applies to all of them.
How is Romania's address space split?
The ten largest holders have 80.7% of the addresses, and 572 small holders, with 16,384 addresses or fewer each, share 8.1%. Our page on Romanian proxies lists 21 networks that Residential Premium can target, among them Orange Romania and Vodafone Romania, in 100 cities, from lists dated October 9, 2026.
IPv6 has nearly doubled in five years. APNIC Labs measured 35.1% of Romanian users as IPv6-capable in the 30 days to November 9, 2026, against 18.7% in the 30 days to October 31, 2020.
How big are the Romanian pools sellers advertise?
Mostly small next to the registry's 7.9 million. We read five sellers' Romania pages through our server on November 10, 2026:
| Seller | Advertised | Of Romania's IPv4 |
|---|---|---|
| Shifter | 2,585,171 | 32.9% |
| Bright Data | 152,993 | 1.9% |
| DataImpulse | 40,117 in 30 days | 0.5% |
Shifter's number equals a third of every IPv4 address Romania holds, homes, companies, universities and servers together. For Bright Data we listed the title's 152,993. The same page's text says 38,248 Romania IPs, one quarter of that, the same gap its Poland and Israel pages show in our Poland guide and Israel guide.
DataImpulse counts 40,117 over 30 days and 6,815 over 24 hours, next to 3,945 active at once, so its 30-day count is 10 times its active pool. Decodo prints only worldwide numbers on its Romania page, and Oxylabs' page drew its text by script. When you compare, ask over how many days a number was counted. We do not publish a pool size per country ourselves.
What do you see through a Romanian IP?
What people in Romania see. Google's help page notes that "IP addresses are roughly based on geography" and that your location "helps to show you nearby results". A Romanian exit returns Romanian search results, prices in lei where a store sets them by location, and the ads that run in Romania. Residential Premium narrows it to a city such as Bucharest, Iaşi, Constanţa or Cluj-Napoca; Residential Lite covers the country at the lowest rate.
The proxy changes your address and nothing else, so each site's rules still apply. Detection vendors list residential proxies as well: MaxMind's Anonymous IP database carries an is_residential_proxy flag. Our guide to how websites detect proxies explains the other checks.
Why do free Romanian proxies fail?
Because so few ever work. Since May 13, 2026, our collector has seen 1,601 Romanian addresses on public free proxy lists, and only 88 of them worked at least once, 42 of those on datacenter networks. On November 10, 2026, 5 were working, and an IP reputation check had flagged all 5 as proxies and reported all 5 for recent abuse.
So a free Romanian proxy is rare and already known. Use one to test code, nothing more. Our free proxy list for Romania shows the working ones.
How do you pay from Romania?
Two ways work from everywhere, Romania included: a Visa or Mastercard card from $10, or crypto from $3. Our guide to buying proxies with crypto shows what each network charges to send a payment. Both fund one balance that never expires. PayPal is not offered; our payment options page lists every method.
How much traffic should you plan?
About 380 full desktop pages per GB, going by HTTP Archive's 2024 median page of 2,652 KB (2,311 KB on mobile). Requests without images use much less, so measure twenty of your own pages before you top up.
Which one should you buy?
For most Romanian jobs, buy Residential Lite with Romania as the country, at $0.50 for one GB and $0.23 per GB at volume. Free Romanian proxies lose: only 88 of 1,601 ever worked, and all 5 working ones were flagged. Choose Residential Premium when the job needs a city, one of the 21 networks or a sticky session of up to 24 hours. It costs $1.45 for one GB and $0.65 per GB at volume. Our residential proxies page has the full price list.
What this page could not check
- We tested no speed, success rate or block rate, on any network, ours included.
- We do not publish which Romanian networks our own exits come from, or how many there are.
- RIPE NCC's file counts addresses given out, which is neither the addresses in use nor a count of users.
- APNIC's user numbers are estimates from its ad measurements, so users per address is an estimate as well, and one of its larger Romanian entries is a server host.
- Seller pool numbers are as advertised on November 10, 2026. We could not check what each one counts.
- The free proxy figures come from one day and one IP reputation check.
- We will check every number on this page again by February 15, 2027.
Sources
- RIPE NCC, delegated-ripencc-extended-latest, records to November 9, 2026, read November 10, 2026.
- RIPE NCC, RDAP records for the largest Romanian address blocks, read November 10, 2026.
- RIPE NCC, "About Us", read November 9, 2026.
- APNIC Labs, estimated users per network, Romania, 60 days to November 2, 2026, read November 10, 2026.
- APNIC Labs, IPv6 use per economy, Romania, data to November 9, 2026, read November 10, 2026.
- CAIDA, RouteViews prefix-to-AS file of November 5, 2026, 12:00 UTC.
- Google Search Help, "Understand and manage your location when you search on Google", read November 9, 2026.
- HTTP Archive, Web Almanac 2024, Page Weight chapter, published December 30, 2024, updated January 2, 2025.
- MaxMind, GeoIP Anonymous IP database documentation, read November 9, 2026.
- Shifter, Bright Data, DataImpulse, Decodo and Oxylabs, Romania location pages, as advertised on November 10, 2026.
- HProxy, Romania page and payment options page, read November 9 and 10, 2026.
- HProxy, free proxy measurement for Romania, November 10, 2026.
